An Overview of Trusted Computing Concepts

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An Overview of Trusted Computing Concepts

• CS 8803 Spring 03

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Trustworthiness in Computing

• The system does what is required
• Despite disruption, errors, and attacks
• The system does not do other things
• Encompasses correctness, reliability, and
  security, privacy, safety, and survivability

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Dependability of a Computing System

• The ability to deliver service that can
  justifiably be trusted
• Attributes availability, reliability, safety,
  confidentiality, integrity, maintainability
• Means fault prevention, fault tolerance, fault
  removal, fault forecasting
• Threats faults, errors, failures
• Attacks deliberately malicious faults

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TCPA

• Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
• Read Bill Arbaugh et al. A Secure and Reliable
  Bootstrap Architecture
• Read slides of Lucky Green's Def Con talk